Finishing welt and method of making the same



Sept. 21, 1932. M; Dim 1,879,121

FINISHING WELT AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Filed Jan. 20. 1930 Patented Sept. 27, 1932 .UNITED STATES}- PATENT OFFICE ARTHUR E. DAVY, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HAMILTON-WADE COMPANY, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS FINISHING WELT AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Application filed January 20, 1930. Serial No. 421,886.

This invention relates to finishing welt or binding for use in upholstery or for finish or ornamental binding and the method of making'the same. While my improved welt is adapted particularly for use in connection with the interior finish of automobiles, the

:invention is of more general application.

The purpose of my invention isto'provide a composite finishing welt presenting a particularly attractive and symmetrical appearance and which may be readily and sezcurely attached by headed fasteners which are concealed and protected by the welt.

In one aspect my invention consists in improvements in finishing welt of the type disclosed in application for United States Let'- ters Patent of Albert L. Howard, Serial No.

413,771, filed December 13, 1929. As in the welt of that application, I contemplate a center or main bead movably secured in place, embellished with a lateral edge'bea'd at one or both margins, the loose edges of the material being concealed. These lateral edges may or may not be colored to contrast with the main bead. An important feature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the covering material for these beads wherein the loose edges of the covering are concealed in diiferent positions,

facilitating the assembling operation and effecting a more nearly symmetrical appearance. This I am enabled to accomplish by attaching a sheathing strip for the main bead and a body strip for covering the lati eral beads and forming the base, in superposed relation, directly to the under side of the main bead'filler with finished surfaces facing each other and two of their edges apand locating each lateral edge of each strip in registration with the corresponding lateral edge of the other strip. Where a marginal bead is desired atboth edges of the welt, the body strip is wrapped around a second lateral bead filler along the line of the last deflection.

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In another aspect my invention consists in V a welt constructed in two principal parts, a I

main bead and a base portion hingedly attached at one edge by means of two separate webbings of strip material connecting said bead along two separated parallel lines throughout the length of the bead, providing a more even support for-the bead and main taining it 'more uniformly in parallel relation to the base.

These and other features of the invention will be best understood and appreciated from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof, selected for purposes" of illustration and shown in the accompanying drawing, in which i Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of a central filler core with the sheathing and body strips 1 attached;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing one edge of thesheathing strip wrapped around the filler core;- V

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the body strip partially folded;

Fig. 1 is a similar view of a completed finishing welt in the preferred form; and

Fig. '5 is a sectional view, onan enlarged scale, of the welt shown in Fig. at. A semi-circular'central bead filler core 10 1s disposed along theregistering edges of a sheathing strip or covering 12 of flexible mate'ri'al superposed, with their finished sur faces facing each other, upon a body strip 14:. A line of stitching 16 connects these two together, passing'through the filler core adjacent to one edge thereof, although the ex act location is of secondary importance only.

The connecting stitching might well pass through any portion of the filler core but, there are certain advantages which will appear more clearlyhereinafter, in locating the line of stitching nearer that edge which is directed towardthe central portions of the superposed strips. The sheathing strip 12 is, according to the construction shown, narrower than the body strip. The dimensions are governed by the size of fillers and the proportions desired in the finished welting and can be adjusted in any suitable manner.

In the next step, the sheathing strip "12 is wrapped entirely around the filler 10 with its extending free lateral edge disposed beneath the registering edges wl1ich-a-re-at-' to the direction of \Vrappi ng of thesheath strip aboutthe filler 10, exposingthefinish of. both strips at all outside surfaces, and finally bringingtheextending edges of the strips with their finishedsurfaces aga;in 1 into contact.

The parts are main ained in;;pl ace when once formed in position by twolinesof-stitching 2st and 26, passing throughthe-strips between the central filler .10 and the i lateral cords of the beads ateachside ofthe central core. The line ofstitchingQepassesthmugh the two depending .sidesof the portion of the strip folded about the tiller cord 18 and through the .reg steringedges 1,7 -and ;2 2 of the two strips. The stitching Q26 =serves'to hold the filler cord 20 in place as \wellas definitely vto locate .the lateral .edge f-the vwelt-ing.

The position of the parts occupiedin the completed .welting is indicated more clearly in Fig. 5,it being apparentth-at correspond ing lateral edgesof both strips are inregistration andthat these edgesare alternately interleaved and concealedbetween the folded portions of the strips. These edges ;are not concentrated along either, edge of the welting but extend sutiicien ly toward the centerfline of the welting to obviate an unsymmetr cal appearance. A. space 28 is provided between the .filler cord 10 and the lower pass of the sheathing .strip 12, permitting a certain ,amount of clearance forproiections produced by the heads of 'fastening devices, orotherwise.

It will benoted that the-central main bead formed byithe filler 10 isattached to one edge of the basepo-rtion formed by the-body strip,

by means ottwo separate webbingsof strip material connecting said edge ofthebase por- .tion with the bead respectively along lines longitudinally of and at the opposite edges of the bead. Thus, the filler 10 is connected to the lateral edge of the base containing the filler cord 18 by a flange or feather 30 of the body strip and a portion 32 of the sheathing strip, the feather 30 being attached -along theililleiof-stitching 16while the portion 32 of the sheathing strip is in close contact along the line of the right edge of the filler 10 effec- --tively-='forming-a connection along that edge. By connecting the main bead along two lines,

a more symmetrical appearance results and the lower edge of the" filler core is mamtained member could also be employed. Ilhesheath ing andbodystrips 1-2 and 14 maybeartificial or genuine; leather or other sheet-.- material.

'It-has been .found thatthe bead -portion-of .welting constructed accordingto the methods herein :described will lie unusually close withinthe; spacebetween theupstandinglateral-beads, even with theuse offtastenings or other devices having projecting. surfacesibetween the'bead andQthe base; portion. Eroma mechanicah standpoint, the welding presents eve y dv ag of convenience :in- 4 attachment.durabilityinwear. V

:Having thus. described myinvention, what Iclairn; as new. and; desire: to secure byLetters Patent is:

r -1. A finishingwelt' having central and lateral bead fillers,- a sheathing stripandavmain body strip having registered edges attached to one edge. of ,said central. filler, said sheathing strip beingwrapped about saidcentral .filler ;and .said main strip being Wrapped about said .lateral filler,.-the other edge of-the sheathing strip :being. concealed between two portions of the main strip, and a line of stitching passing through .1 the main strip. and said edge o-fthe sheathingfstrip.

.2. Afinishing Welt having centraland lateral bead fillers, ,aplurality of superposed strips with edges attached to said central .in more uniformlyparallel relation with the 'filler,-the extending edges of said strips 'be- 1:

ingwrappedinoppositedirections, one about the. eentra lsfiller through an angle. of substantially 360 degrees and the other about the l tera -fi e t u h;ai -ang tsubsta tial y degrees, ,torming aidouble thickness of strip material depending from said lateral Itiller, and the extending edge of the strip which is wrapped; about said centrahfiller beingconcealed-and fastenedbetween said.;clou- .ble-thicknessesbya line of stitching.

- tration and being concealed beneath the first mentioned edges.

4. A finished Well having central and lateral bead fillers, a plurality of strips with registering edges attached to said central filler, the extending edges of said strips being wrapped in opposite directions, one about the central filler and the other about the lateral fillers, said lateral fillers being positioned one at either side of said central filler and the extending edges terminating in registration and being concealed beneath the first mentioned edges and secured in place by stitching passing through said strips between said central and lateral fillers on each side of the central filler. 5. A finishing welt comprising a main bead and a base portion hingedly attached along one edge thereof by means of two separate webbings of strip material connecting said base portion with saidbead respectively along two relatively spaced parallel lines longitudinally of and adjacent to the head.

6. The method of forming a finishing welt I which comprises attaching superposed strips 1- of material having finished surfaces facing each other to a main bead filler, wrapping one strip completely around the filler exposing its finished surface, deflecting another of said strips in a reverse direction to form a fold around another filler and fastening the extending edge of the first strip within the depending sides of the fold 7. The method of forming a finishing welt which comprises attaching superposed strips of material having differently finished surfaces facing each other, to a main bead filler,

wrapping one strip completely around the filler in a manner to expose its finished surface and deflecting in a reverse direction another of said strips throughsubstantially 360 degrees forming a flattened envelope about lateral bead fillers disposed in the edges of said envelope.

8. The method of forming a finishing welt which comprises attaching two superposed strips of material having differently finished surfaces facing each other, to a main bead filler, wrapping one strip completely around the filler in a manner to expose its finished surface, folding the other strip to form a base portion, and extending the free edge portions of said strips in the same direction and securing them together with their finished surfaces in face to face contact.

9. A finishing welt comprising main and lateral beads, covering strips therefor one folded to cover said main bead and another folded to cover said lateral bead and each having a free outwardly extending edge portion remaining after covering its bead, said free edge portion of the main'bea-d strip being folded beneath the main bead and the free edge portion of the other strip being folded therebeneath to form a base portion and doubled back upon itself beneath the main bead and adjacent to the free edge portion of the main bead strip, whereby both free edges of the strips are interleaved and concealed in the welt above said base portion. ARTHURE. DAVY. 

